Category: Literature

  • The Merchant of Venice Study Guide

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    The Merchant of Venice Study Guide Author: William Shakespeare Original title: The Merchant of Venice Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare is often classified as a romantic comedy, but it can’t clearly be defined as comedy due to its piercing dramatic scenes, especially with the character of the Jewish moneylender Shylock and Portia’s fiery speech…

  • To Kill a Mockingbird Essays

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    To kill a Mockingbird – A Book Review American writer Nelle Haper Lee, famous for her race relations novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Lee was 34 when the work was published and it has remained her only novel. The book eventually became an international bestseller. Lee, commonly known to family and friends…

  • The Squire

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    Squire, introduced in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, is a young man, a disciple of his father, to become a knight. He has great talent, but the question is whether his talents lie in the fight, music, and art. “Squire from Canterbury Chaucer Stories” is a young man with many talents. He follows in the footsteps of…

  • Jacob Marley

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    Jacob Marley is a ghost that has accompanied Scrooge through his travel. Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything…

  • Old Major

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    Orwell gives the title of “Old Major” to a wise pig, whose oratorical abilities inspired all animals to revolt. In his speech he lists the crimes of human against “beautiful creatures”, calling for the construction of a new world order. Although later, in his confession, he admits that his life was happy and comfortable when…

  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles Study Guide

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    Tess of the D’Urbervilles Study Guide Author: Thomas Hardy Original title: Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented Published: Published January 30th 2003 by Penguin Classics (first published April 1st 1891) Setting: United Kingdom ISBN 0141439599 (ISBN13: 9780141439594) “Tess of the d’Ubervilles” is a novel by Thomas Hardy also entitled “A Pure Woman…

  • The Call of the Wild Essays

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    Virtue and The Destructive Drive in The Call of the Wild Buck is the canvas upon which London delineates the ruthless and predatory world characteristic of both civilization and wilderness. For London’s work offers no apology for Nature and her violent ways. Nor does it uphold civilization as a redeeming and cleansing mechanism from which…

  • Wide Sargasso Sea Essays

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    Woman, Enslavement and Madness in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea Adrienne Rich defines revision as “the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction” (305). The act of revision may thereby be seen as the act of re-reading a text while in the process…

  • Watership Down Essays

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    Watership Down Watership Down, Richard Adams’ first novel, made its way into my life in the Christmas of 1974 and has drawn me back to its yellowing pages ever since. A present from a much loved uncle, the story of the quest for survival by a brave, easy to love band of rabbits, seemed to…

  • George Sorenson

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    We don’t get a lot of information about this character, but after reading some pages of the book, we can comprehend that this person is a fisherman. He is ill, but kind, he is scared of a lot of things. For example, George is afraid of dirty things to death. It’s a phobia. But as…